Interesting Enough, Baker Mayfield Is The Oldest Quarterback Left In AFC Playoffs

Baker Mayfield has reached the playoffs and won a game in his third season in the league. Despite being young in NFL terms, Mayfield is the oldest quarterback left playing in the AFC.

The NFL is a quarterbacks league and their is plenty of them in their prime and a bunch more heading there. Interesting enough the NFC and AFC playoffs are headlined by two different age groups of quarterbacks. The NFC has Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Jared Goff.

Throw out the outlier in Goff and well, the NFC playoff quarterbacks left are all up there in age and future hall of famers. In the AFC, things are totally different.

Baker Mayfield is the oldest quarterback left in the playoffs on the AFC side of things. Yes, the 2028 #1 overall pick is the oldest. Mayfield is 25 years old and doesn’t turn 26 until April, but he is leading the pack in age.

The birthdates of the four remaining QBs in the AFC postseason:

Baker Mayfield - April 14, 1995

Patrick Mahomes - September 17, 1995

Josh Allen - May 21, 1996

Lamar Jackson - January 7, 1997

The 2018 draft class looks to have worked out for multiple quarterbacks and teams. All of these quarterbacks besides Mahomes (2017), is apart of that class.

The oldest quarterback left is Tom Brady, born in August of 1977 he is nearly 20 years older than Lamar Jackson. With Jackson being another QB from the AFC North still alive, the division is in good hands going forward.

It is crazy to think Mayfield is the oldest on the AFC side, when he is in just his third NFL season. This goes to show that there is an abundance of talent coming in at the quarterback position and new faces are taking over. Mayfield is right there in that pack.